BANGALORE: For more than eight years, this ex-BMTC employee's transportation has been a state funded affair. Claiming to be a BMTC officer, he travelled free of cost between Bangalore and Kanakapura in KSRTC buses. His trump card was his ex-employee card. But on Tuesday, his journey was cut short when a KSRTC conductor caught him with his fake card.Rudraswamy (38), a junior technical officer at Kanakapura Government Industrial Training Institute is now counting days behind the bars. A resident of Yelachenahalli on Kanakapura Road, this fraud was a conductor with BMTC and had resigned the job in 2003.As BMTC and KSRTC employees can travel in the government buses free of cost, he continued to use the service even after resignation. He had stolen BMTC's fourth depot seal, with which he allegedly tampered the digits on the ID card every year. He also allegedly forged the signature of depot managers.According to the officials of Harohalli KSRTC depot, Rudraswamy travelled in the bus on all working days for the past eight years. If the conductors asked him to get the ticket, he claimed he was a senior officer with BMTC.When a conductor further asked him to produce his ID card, he brushed aside their request and threatened of complaining against them to higher officials."On Tuesday morning, when he boarded the bus plying from Bangalore to Kanakapura, conductor Syed Kammadolli asked him to produce his ID card. The conductor had known his behaviour but still forced him to show him the ID card. Budging to this, Rudraswamy produced his fake ID card and his fraud came to light. At Harohalli, the conductor alerted his officers and Rudraswamy was asked to get down of the bus. Later, he was handed over to the police," an official said.The Harohalli police sub inspector, M Shyam, confirmed the incident and said that Rudraswamy had confessed of cheating KSRTC by using fake ID card. The police have seized the card and would produce him before a court on Wednesday.
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